Hello, new to this place.

Good morning. How is everyone doing today so far?


It's already the end of January... can you believe it? I am not sure that I can (for a number of reasons). For me, thinking about it in terms of the first month of the new year is just odd - so much has happened in the last couple of weeks that it feels like it has been much longer...

So... Tuesday. What do you have going on today?

@Purpsy: Camping was good. It was a beautiful night for it, and it was lovely being in an area that we had pretty much to ourselves. :3 <3

LOL - do I want to know how you ended up in some stranger's tent... especially if you didn't go camping?? XD

@Purpsy: It was a good time. I'm glad we went.

LOL - that's such a funny story about your tent misadventure! XD

@Purpsy: lol! your tent story. XDD I would have sobbed too.
The crap we do as little kids.

I remember my mom yelling at me over and over to not sneak through the fence to the neighbor's garden.
I continued doing it, no one fixed the fence.
However, time came to the point we had to move and I was old enough to realize I was being a little thief. So, I voluntarily went to the neighbor's, knocked on their door and said sorry for stealing their cherry tomatoes.
They laughed and said it was fun watching me be sneaky. My mom was behind me and I got so embarrassed I teared up. My mom was embarrassed and awkwardly laughed with them. I was a little elementary kid. XD

@Koah: To be fair cherry tomatoes are pretty awesome. I was especially fond of them as a kid, myself. XD

@Aisukohi: I'm just in the middle of it right now, but my youngest son is moving most of the way across the country. Tomorrow. It has been a rough couple weeks of a lot of processing and adjustment and trying to get him ready for such a big move. Before this latest thing (his move)... other things like a motorcycle accident...

@Wildfire: lol! I can't wait to hear about his journey.
I was going to mention, the cold here is dry, so it's bearable. I imagine Florida cold is like... wet cold air. bleh.
There's been times I go out in a t-shirt and jeans and it isn't until my nose is getting crunchy that I'm like "oh. OH. it's cold out." *nose crunchy=below freezing. It's the moisture in the nose freezing up*

@CooperationIsKey: I was one of those kids that loved veggies and hated 'junk food'. Although, ramen was like once a day [or every other day]until I hit 18 and was like "oh.. this isn't good for me." XDD

@Aisukohi: omg, I had to look up a water moccasin. They're called cottonmouths around here. o3o" You've had poor circumstances with your camping trips. I'm sorry.
BUT You have great stories to tell! lol.
I would have totally been a person with a shovel around that cottonmouth. o3o'

FREAKIN RACCOONS. I love them.. but they're totally camp-food thieves!

As a teen, I took a few friends camping. We all started a fire and got comfortable- or at least I thought we were comfy. Everyone began fighting. Two people left to go on a walk [opposite directions], and two others went to bed. That left me alone at the fire. I had my feet up and I was gripping my bag of marshmallows watching the fire dim, just wondering how I didn't see the signs of the fight. [teen angst].
Then that awful 6th sense kicked in, that paranoid feeling like something was watching me and it just kept getting darker and I felt paralyzed. We were pretty much in the center of the camp grounds, so it couldn't've been a bobcat or any big game. I finally got enough balls to put my feet down off the chair and throw a log on the fire. However, when I went to set my bag of marshmallows on the ground, little THIEVING FINGERS GRABBED IT AND RAN OFF.
damn raccoon was Sitting under my chair for however long I had that itching feeling... WAITING for me to set my marshmallows down.

It was a full bag [minus a few I ate] of those GIANT marshmallows.

*shakes fist at raccoons* but I love them.